Gene mutations. Words make things seem different than what they are. Angelina Jolie's mutation made big news but does that make her a ... mutant? Consider this. Each of us have around 21,000 genes and EACH of us have rare mutations on around 150 of these genes. It is just the way of life with a genome. Mutations are not like turning into the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Sometimes they do bring a horrible illness or even just an annoying one. But some do things as odd as deciding whether or not we can smell asparagus in urine. Having a gene mutation is not inherently a bad thing that makes a person defective. It is simply a difference between us that makes our ancestors still a part of who we are today.
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AuthorMy name is Rick and the SNP which I refer to is a C282Y homozygous variant in my HFE gene. This site is devoted to making that sentence sound like simple English. Archives
July 2015
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